Space Empires IV Game... of Doom! (Adamant Mod)

Nova Andromeda · Post by **Nova Andromeda** » 2006-03-08 11:44pm

--What are the shipsets for? Are they personal images, etc.? How does one "install" them?

Trogdor · Post by **Trogdor** » 2006-03-09 12:00am

Nova Andromeda wrote:--What are the shipsets for? Are they personal images, etc.? How does one "install" them?

They're the pictures of your ships, and it usually also includes your race portrait, your empire's icon, etc. You can download them and you'll get a folder containing all the pictures. In the Adamant mod folder you'll find a pictures folder, and in that folder you'll find a races folder. That's where you should them.

BTW, Gups, your shipset's cool, despite being a repaint of the Tholians'. But despite the fact that we of the Alliance like to think of ourselves as a friendly people, if you try and make us kneel before Zod...well, we'll see just how "super" the Kryptonian Enclave really is.

CaptBooyah · Post by **CaptBooyah** » 2006-03-09 02:36am

GuppyShark wrote:
Kojiro wrote:This may take a little more than a few mins...I promise it'll be done tonight when Guppy gets home and shows my inept butt what to do.

Don't forget to allocate plenty of points for Kneeling to Zod.

All those in favour of pig-piling the self-absorbed dictator... *raises hand*

Kojiro · Post by **Kojiro** » 2006-03-09 09:12am

Due to retardedness on my part I needed to rejoin. A few times. All is well now.

GuppyShark · Post by **GuppyShark** » 2006-03-09 09:12am

Well the site did some funky "GameUpload" download shenanigans when Kojiro tried to upload his turn file. Screw it, I'm going to bed.

GuppyShark · Post by **GuppyShark** » 2006-03-09 05:54pm

And now I'm home sick.

Kojiro's Transformers Shipset.

EDIT: It was missing a few ships, but I fixed it.

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2006-03-09 06:09pm

Hey, help Kojiro make his empire so we can get this game rolling! (it's still not uploaded according to the PBW website!

)

Brian

GuppyShark · Post by **GuppyShark** » 2006-03-09 06:28pm

Can't upload his empire for him but I can fix his shipset - done.

Nova Andromeda · Post by **Nova Andromeda** » 2006-03-09 11:51pm

--Has anyone had any luck getting the chaff missiles to work yet?

Nephtys · Post by **Nephtys** » 2006-03-10 12:00am

Alright. Game is getting set up. Should I use an 'ideal multi' galaxy, or the 'sectors' idea we had earlier, where there's a cluster of 6 or 7 systems, linked to far away clusters?

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2006-03-10 12:03am

Just ran a sim, got the chaff missile working by setting the firing strategy to "nearest, smallest, most damaged, strongest".

For the Chaff Missile to work properly I think you have to use the "Long Range Pre-Fire" mount, and use either maximum range or optimal range, not point blank. Because your ship will always fire second in response to their missiles, basically your ship's going to have to be out of range of their missile for at least one round. Most seekers are speed 6, so you need to stay at least 6 away from them for the Chaff missile to fire I think. But strangely enough, sometimes the Chaff fires, sometimes it doesn't, AI buggy.

<edit>I think the AI bug can be fixed if you set "smallest, nearest, most damaged, strongest" so they'll always target the smallest thing aka a missile. PD being one range in this game, chaff missiles might be useful.</edit>

Brian

Kojiro · Post by **Kojiro** » 2006-03-10 12:03am

I'm completely unfussed. I like the clusters idea though.

Also, having had a play around now...I miss my vorlon tech.

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2006-03-10 12:07am

Cluster seems like a good idea.

Though I'm going to be snatching up as many clusters as I can. Lol.

Brian

Nephtys · Post by **Nephtys** » 2006-03-10 12:10am

Got a clusters map going. What tech to start with again? I know tech costs are medium.

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2006-03-10 12:13am

It was low start right? Cause medium gives you IR and X-Ray 6 and 600 kT hulls right from the start?

And Low tech cost, cause there's no PBW advanced research and it takes forever to research propulsion?

Man you forget easily you were the one who suggested those

.

Oh yeah, and high resource start please.

Brian

Nephtys · Post by **Nephtys** » 2006-03-10 12:24am

Turn 1... ready to go. So it begins.

Try to survive. If you CAN!

Bw-a-h-a-h-a-h-a-h-a!

GuppyShark · Post by **GuppyShark** » 2006-03-10 12:24am

Nephtys wrote:Tweaked my empire a tad too. But uh.

Ouch. I checked medium starting tech. It's a very extensive package. We'll start low tech, with low cost.

Medium tech gives about half of the 'basic' tech trees. So that's like level 6 in improved lasers too.. a bit too much.

There.

GuppyShark · Post by **GuppyShark** » 2006-03-10 12:27am

Crap, I need different data files. v0.15.04, right?

GuppyShark · Post by **GuppyShark** » 2006-03-10 12:30am

Hrmm, even the most recent files aren't working.

Nephtys · Post by **Nephtys** » 2006-03-10 12:32am

GuppyShark wrote:Hrmm, even the most recent files aren't working.

I use 15.04...

GuppyShark · Post by **GuppyShark** » 2006-03-10 12:33am

Bloody install didn't put them in the right place. Working now.

Tobor · Post by **Tobor** » 2006-03-10 12:36am

I think something screwed up because it wont let me take my turn something about different files to when the mpire was created. Or something like that. Any suggestions ?

Nephtys · Post by **Nephtys** » 2006-03-10 12:40am

Tobor wrote:I think something screwed up because it wont let me take my turn something about different files to when the mpire was created. Or something like that. Any suggestions ?

The empires file on your computer should be irrelevant. Try installing version 1.5.0.4 and running it again.

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2006-03-10 12:41am

You need to install Neph's patch.

Oh and a lot of people got the shaft. I got three unpleasant planets and two mild planets. Looks like BSG and Flower people lucked out and got good starting planets

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<edit>Nm, the patch was for ST Mod, gragh.</edit>

<edit>Heh heh first turn in suckers!

</edit>

Brian

Nephtys · Post by **Nephtys** » 2006-03-10 12:46am

brianeyci wrote:You need to install Neph's patch.

Oh and a lot of people got the shaft. I got three unpleasant planets and two mild planets. Looks like BSG and Flower people lucked out and got good starting planets .

<edit>Nm, the patch was for ST Mod, gragh.</edit>

Brian

How can you tell? And that only affects pop growth. I have good racial tolerance for example.